Replacing the 3 Rs with the 3 As The Importance of Human Advantages, Automation and AI to the Future of Work Concern about the impact of technology – like robots and artificial intelligence (AI) – is nothing new, tracing back several centuries when machines for harvesting grain, the cotton gin and the steam engine, spawned …
Our Q1 CXO Advisory Board call focused on how enterprises should be evaluating the increasing promise of quantum computing. The event was moderated by Sierra Ventures Managing Partner Ben Yu and speakers included Michael Brett, Worldwide Business Development and GTM Strategy for Quantum Computing at AWS and Michael Biercuk, CEO & Founder of Q-CTRL. Quantum …
The following is a guest post from Sierra Ventures portfolio company, QuillBot. *** It’s an exciting time to be an NLP-based company. Advances in the field have reduced costs and the time needed for processing and training. Additionally, overall model output quality has increased due to more robust pre-trained models. All of these factors have …
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Over the past few months, the Wall Street Journal and Goldman Sachs have begun to use Drop’s Cardify.ai data highlighting insights into consumer spend and income during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even cloud juggernaut Snowflake is using Cardify.ai as a featured dataset during demos with their customers. Why is that? Cardify.ai’s market validated database has access …
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Our world is fundamentally different than it was at the beginning of 2020. As early-stage investors, we are still looking for answers to how the “next normal” will play out. Many of the early 2020 forecasts within the technology industry have not come to fruition at the scale that was originally thought. The ongoing COVID …
Many companies are exploring utilizing machine learning (ML) technology, however, getting a model deployed and into production is no easy feat. Many data scientists lack the necessary tooling to properly train, manage, and deploy ML models. Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps, is commonly viewed as the application of DevOps principles to machine learning systems which …
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been buzzwords in the tech ecosystem for years, yet we’ve only scratched the surface of innovation that is possible. A simplified definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the umbrella of machines performing “smart” tasks that humans would normally carry out. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of that umbrella …
Quantum Computing has long offered the promise to radically transform the computing industry and over the last few years, we are starting to see the results to support the potential. Experts believe general-purpose Quantum Computers will still take some time, but 2019 saw some big steps forward for the industry. In a survey we conducted …
As we look towards 2020, we are reflecting on the trends we are most excited about in the B2B technology landscape. This week’s post centers around the changes taking place in customer communication and interaction on a global scale. Customer Interaction on a Global Scale With our global investment focus, we continue finding new regions …
5 Areas to Watch: Part 5 As early-stage technology investors, we see a wide range of companies working on game-changing businesses. This 5 Part Blog Series shares what our firm has been most intrigued by within the early-stage Enterprise B2B IT Infrastructure space in the first half of 2019. Trends we noticed led to …
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